[Buge]

Companies already do all those through technical means. In fact they have the full force of the law behind their efforts because they simply put some DRM on it and now it's illegal to try to circumvent.

I would LOVE it if the courts would remove the legal protections of DRM. It seems so strange that this court has gone so far in the viewer-rights direction, but hasn't bothered taking the baby steps to remove the legal protection of DRM.

Hmm, now I'm hoping LinkedIn implements some DRM so this fight can get truly interesting and maybe make some positive difference.

[rsj_hn]

I'm not sure whether data like this can be copyrighted or is considered a creative work. The creative work would be things like the LinkedIn logo or graphics, and these fall under IP protections that limit what you can do with them even if they are freely available.